BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S12184; COLLNOT3191;
Sample Donor Peach, B.N.; Tait,D.;
Rock name 'Original entry: Quartz Hypersthene Dolerite F'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Quartz-hypersthene diabase F: Edinburgh Memoir (1910), pp. 301, 306 and Plate IX, Fig. 4
Locality details North Queensferry, cutting above tunnel, N end of cutting
50k map sheet Edinburgh (32)

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Map reference NT 1277 8131
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S12184

Cross Polarized, S12184

Plane Polarized, S12184

Plane Polarized, S12184